Reviews

We can see why Melissa is head of her own firm! She is a genuine person who cares about her clients (a la "small town lawyer"), but has a wealth of legal knowledge and expertise (a la "big city attorney"). She doesn't bill for every second of every conversation like our previous attorneys at another firm. She only bills us for when we talk business as it should be. Her firm's rates are pretty good. Honestly, I would pay more given the highly personal service and amazing attention to detail but no rate increases since we moved our matters to BLF. Her firm is very modern with email billing and going paperless wherever possible, but like us she can be old school too and certain things are on paper and as she says, "Always will be. Lawyers like paper." BLF is in a building in downtown SLO with free parking and a nice conference room. She does intellectual property for us and advises us on our business matters and writes our contracts. She's got a great perspective from her experience at big firms and owning her own business too. We think she is a diamond in the rough because she was in the paper for winning awards, is the President of the SLO Bar group, and despite all of these things, she is always the one who handles our work and communicates with us. When we dealt with our previous lawyers, they said the head attorney would handle everything and we were paying for that experience, but it was obvious that wasn't the case. With BLF however, Melissa talks to us directly and even on weekends if there is a time sensitive matter. She has gotten two trademarks for us on the first attempt that the previous attorneys couldn't get despite wasting our time and money. Can't say enough about how pleased we are with Melissa and BLF. That's why we decided to write a review. Saw the AVVO commercials on TV, looked her up because I was curious, and was surprised she wasn't ranked higher! Hope this helps you because we we know we could have saved a lot of time, money and stress if we had found her sooner!